<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook   Into the main of waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind man can see his mouth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind man can see his mouth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the quarterback -- you are going to get hit. Everyone on our offensive line played well, but obviously we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the quarterback -- you are going to get hit. Everyone on our offensive line played well, but obviously we did miss O'Callaghan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4310]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,   Lost all the others she lets us devote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12340]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54810]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind cannot foresee its own advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost the perfect storm. Things are coming together that we've never seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost the perfect storm. Things are coming together that we've never seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had not planned on having any vote, other than just to study (the contract), ... It's not a public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30875]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had not planned on having any vote, other than just to study (the contract), ... It's not a public hearing, but it is a study session. We will take comments. And then if it seems suitable to the property owners involved -- who we're most concerned about -- we will have a vote on Sept. 26 (the next council meeting) on this issue to start the ball rolling for a new bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll always be Number 1 to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll always be Number 1 to myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16985]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole game is about throwing and catching. The teams that do that the best comes out on top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole game is about throwing and catching. The teams that do that the best comes out on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27209]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of communication is the language of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of communication is the language of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to balance three equal lines, and I think it worked pretty well. Carrollton-Farmers Branch is second in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36096]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to balance three equal lines, and I think it worked pretty well. Carrollton-Farmers Branch is second in the division (with 23 points) and we hung in the game until the third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He koude songes make and well endite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's vote deals a severe blow to the ambitions of the terrorists and sends a clear message to the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's vote deals a severe blow to the ambitions of the terrorists and sends a clear message to the world that the people of Iraq will decide the future of their country through peaceful elections, not violent insurgency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about stuff that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think. What they think is up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41400]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about stuff that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think. What they think is up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intimates are predestined ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intimates are predestined]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6060]]></link><description><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. How are you?" I would send them, but I know that it's just not enough. My words are cold and flat, and you deserve more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63880]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is interest in Kuwait and Iran regarding cooperation on the issue of restoration, as the dried marshes adversely affects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is interest in Kuwait and Iran regarding cooperation on the issue of restoration, as the dried marshes adversely affects all three of those countries and others on the [Persian] Gulf. Turkey and Syria need to also be engaged to help in the management of the water resources of the entire basin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6024</guid></item></channel></rss>